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Rules and Regulations 



For the Government of 



The County High Schools 

OF ALABAMA 



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Course of Study 



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List of Text Books 



For These Schools 



Issued by 



Department of Education 

Montgomery, Alabama 
July, 1910 






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RULES AND REGULATIONS 

S 

o ADOPTED BY 

The High School Commission 

FOR THE GOVERNMENT 

OF THE 

COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA 



1. The county board of education shall nominate the teachers 
for the county high school and the nomination shall be sent to the 
High School Commission for approval. The board in sending in the 
nominations shall suggest the salary to be paid each teacher. 

2. The teachers of the county high school shall consist of a 
principal and two or more assistants. 

3. The principal shall be employed for the whole year and his 
term of service shall begin July 1st and end June 30th of the follow- 
ing year, and he shall be paid by the calendar month. The assistant 
teachers shall be employed for nine months (36 weeks) and shall be 
paid by the scholastic month. The salary of each assistant teacher 
shall begin when the regular session opens. 

4. The teacher shall keep an accurate record of the daily reci- 
tations and conduct of the pupils, and at the end of each term make 
a general report of each pupil to the principal, who shall place this 
report on a general record book which shall be well bound and kept 
for future reference. The principal shall keep a matriculation book 
in which shalll be placed the names of the pupils asi they matriculate, 
giving the full name, home address, age, and any other desired infor- 
matriculate. 

5. It shall he the duly of rhe principal at t»»e en« of the ninth 
month to make a report on blanks furnished by the Department of 
Education. This report shall be made in duplicate, one copy being 
sent to the county superintendent and the other to the Superinten- 
dent at Montgomery. It shall also be the duty of the principal to 
make reports from time to time when called for by the Department of 
Education. 

6. It shall be the duty of the principal and assistants in each 



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oounty high school to follow faithfully the course of study prescribed 
by the Superintendent of Education, in accordance with section 1866 
of the Code. 

This course of study shall be a four year course and shall be 
based on an elementary course of seven grades or yearsi 

7. The county high school shall begin its annual session on 
iuch date as may be fixed by the county board of education. 

8. The session of the county high schools shall be nine scholas- 
tic months (thirty-six weeks). The session is divided into two terms 
of four and one-half months each, and at the end of each term a 
general written examination shall be given to the pupils on the 
branches studied during the preceding term. 

9. The holder of an unexpired second grade certificate issued 
by the State Board of Examiners or a written statement from a 
teacher who holds a first grade certificate issued by the State Board 
of Examiners, stating that the holder has taken the elementary 
course of study as prescribed by the Department of Education in his 
or her school and has passed a satisfactory examination on these 
branches through the seevnth grade, shall be entitled to entrance in 
the county high school without further examination. Every appli- 
cant who is not eligible to entrance without examination as stated in 
this rule shall be required to stand a satisfactory written entrance ex- 
amination on the branches included in the elementary course of 
seven years' work by the principal and teachers of the county high 
school. Each applicant shall be required to make not less than 50 
per eent. on each elementary branch and his general average shall 
be not less than 75 per cent. 

10. During the vacation period the principal shall canvass the 
county in the interest of the county high school, or perform any other 
general school work that may be assigned to him by the High School 
Commission and county board. 

11. All teachers must attend the county and district institutes 
and also the annual meeting of the Alabama Education Association. 
The time used in attending these meetings will be counted as time 
taught. 

12. A pupil living in any county may attend the county high 
school in another county without any additional charges for tuition, 
etc. but every pupil in the county high school must present to the 
principal his receipt at the beginning of each term of the session 
showing that an incidental fee of $2.50 has been paid to the local 
treasurer of the high school which he is to attend. 

13 Eveij county high school must have a treasurer who shall 
reside ia i.<w place where the school if. located. TLit, treasurer shall 
fte elected by the couaiy board of education, subject to the approval 
of the high school commission, for a term of three years and shall be 
required to make a bond of $3,000 in a reputable surety company; 
said bond must be approved by and filed in the office of the Probate 
Judge of the eounty in which the high school is located, and a certi- 
fied copy of said bond must be filed in the office of the Department of 



Education at Montgomery. The treasurer shall keep in a well bound 
book accurate accounts and shall make report as to the financial con- 
dition of the high school whenever the county board and high school 
commission require it. He shall keep an accurate account of receipts 
and disbursements of all moneys, stating from what source they came 
and how disbursed, giving receipts and taking proper vouchers. 

14. The principal of the school on the 20th day of each calen- 
dar month shall make a pay roll for tfie salaries of the teachers due, 
together with whatever accounts may have accrued against the 
school, and after approving it shall file the same with the county 
superintendent of education who shall examine it and after approving 
shall send the pay roll to the Superintendent of Education at Mont- 
gomry. After the pay roll has been approved by the Governor, the 
Superintendent of Education shall return it to the local treasurer of 
the county high achool. The treasurer shall then issue a check to 
cover each item on the pay roll and opposite each item he shall place 
the number of the check paying such item. When checks are handed 
to the teachers they shall receipt the pay roll in the regular "signa- 
ture column." All local bills must be receipted for in the same man- 
ner when practicable. It shall be the duty of the treasurer to place 
and keep all cancelled checks in the proper pay roll when the checks 
are returned to him from the bank, which checks may serve as dupli- 
cate vouchers. 

15. It shall be the duty of the treasurer to pay all items with 
checks stating on the check the nature of the item paid. The treas- 
urer shall pay out no funds for any item until the account therefor 
has been regularly placed on the pay roll which must be made out 
and approved by the principal of the school, the county superintend 
dent of education for the county board and by the Governor for the 
high school commission. 

16. The treasurer of the county high school shall, on the last 
day of each month, make to the secretary of the High School Commis- 
sion an itemied statement of all funds received by him during the 
month exclusive of the quarterly auditor's warrant. 

17. The treasurer must make an annual report of the receipts 
and disbursements at the close of the ninth scholastic month each 
year. One of the report shall be filed with the county superinten- 
dent and the other with the Superintendent of Education at Montgom- 
ery. 

18. The treasurer shall be paid no salary, but the premium on 
his surety bond and any incidental expenses connected with his of- 
ficial duties must be paid from local supplement funds. 

19. It shall be the duty of the principal to attach to each 
monthly pay roll an itemized statement of any incidental account to 
be paid. 

20. The quarterly state appropriation of $500 shall be mad* 
payable to the order of the high school treasurer and be drawn on 
January 1st, April 1st, July 1st, and October 1st of each year, and 
the requisition therefor must be signed by the county superintendent 



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of education for the county board and by the Governor of the State 
for the high school commission. It shall be the duty of the chief 
clerk in the Department of Education to receipt the State Auditor for 
the warrant which shall be sent by said chief clerk to the high school 
treasurer. 

21. Examinations must be held at the close of each term of 
lour and one-half months by the high school teachers and at the 
close of the session a certificate shall be issued to each pupil who 
passes a satisfactory examination stating that such pupil has finished 
the work of a designated year and this certificate shall entitle the 
pupil to enter upon the work of the year next after that so designated 
in any county high school in the State. 

22. In order to pass a satisfactory examination on a particuar 
branch in the county high school it is necessary for the pupil to make 
an average of not leas than 60 per cent, on a branch in the first 
year's work, 65 per cent, on a branch in the second year's work, 70 
per cent, on a branch in the third year's work, and 75 per cent, on 
a branch in the fourth year's work. This average shall be secured 
by averaging the grade made on the final examinations with the 
daily recitation grades given, the final examination counting one- 
third and the daily recitations two-thirds. All examination paners 
shall be held for reference until January 1st of the succeeding year. 

23. The county high school teachers shall hold teachers' meet- 
ings twice each month of the scholastic year at which the theory 
and practice of teaching the various high school branches shall be 
studied and discussed. 

24. The High School Commission shall appoint from time to 
time High School Inspectors, who shall visit the various county high 
schools of the State and after carefully inspecting them shall make 
a written report to the Secretary of the High School Commission. 

25. The principal and assistants of each county high school 
are hereby authorized to make such rules and regulations as they 
may deem necessary to successfully control and discipline the school, 
provided such rules and regulations shall in no way conflict with 
the rules and regulations made by the High School Commission. 



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INSTRUCTIONS TO THE 

COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL 

AND 
COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL TREASURER. 

THE PRINCIPAL. 

1. The Principal should read carefully the rules and regula- 
tions governing the County High Schools and comply with them in 
detail. 

2. A County High School pay roll. should be made out by the 
Principal on the 20th day of every month in the year, and the pay 
roll should be dated the last day of the calendar month for which it 
is made 

3. The Principal is paid by the calendar month and. his term 
of service begins July 1st of each year. The assistants are paid by 
the scholastic month and their terms begin at the opening of the 
school term. 

4. Opposite the name of each assistant in the County High 
School between the words "Salary" and "Month," the words "First," 
"Second," "Third," "Fourth," "Fifth," "Sixth," "Seventh," "Eighth," 
and "Ninth" should be used in designating the months for which 
the assistant is paid during the school session. 

5. The janitor should be appointed by the Principal and he 
may be paid by the scholastic month or by the calendar month. 

6. If the Principal desires to reimburse himself for incidentals 
paid by him, he should place his name on the pay roll for the amount 
and an itemized statement of the incidental account should be at- 
tached to the pay roll. 

7. When an account against the school is to be paid, the name 
of the party should be placed on the pay roll for the amount and an 
itemized statement of the account should be attached to the pay roll. 
The Principal should make opposite the name of each party render- 
ing the account, a general statement telling the character of the 
claim. 

8. Each pay roll must be totalized and the total should be 
placed on the bottom line of the pay roll. 

9. After properly making out the pay roll and approving it the 
Principal should, on the 20th of the month, send the pay roll to the 
County Superintendent for his approval and urge the County Super- 
intendent to send it immediately to the Chief Clerk in the Depart- 
ment of Education at Montgomery. The pay roll will be checked 
and after being approved by the Governor, will be returned to the 
Treasurer of the County High School. 

THE TREASURER. 

1. The Treasurer should read carefully the rules and regula- 



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tiona governing the County High Schools and comply with them In 
detail. 

2. All County High School funds, including the State appro- 
priation, town and county appropriations, matriculation and inciden- 
tal fees, etc., should be placed in the hands of the County Higa 
School Treasurer. 

3. The Treasurer should pay out no County High School funds 
for any item until the item has been placed on a regular monthly 
pay roll and that pay roll hasi been approved by the Principal, the 
County Superintendent and the Governor of the State. 

4. All High School funds should be kept by the Teasurer in a 
local bank or in the nearest if there is no local bank. 

5. All items appearing on the pay roll should be paid by check 
and each check should be numbered, and the number of the check 
should be placed opposite the amount for which it is issued. 

6. All local parties should be required to receipt the pay roll 
in the "Receipt Signature" column. 

7. The Treasurer should copy each monthly pay roll in a large 
Record Book showing each item as it appears on the pay roll. 

8. Every County High School Treasurer should have a well- 
bound Ledger or Record Book and every official letter received by 
the Treasurer and a copy of every official letter written should be 
filed for future reference. 

9. Some time between the 20th and 30th of each month, the 
Treasurer should have his bank book balanced, and his bank account 
and school account in a ledger book kept by him, should be balanced 
at the same time. Checks returned by the bank should be filed in 
the proper pay roll and these cancelled checks will answer as vouch- 
ers. 

10. The Treasurer of the County High School shall, on the last 
day of each month, make to the Secretary of the High School Com- 
mission an itemized statement of all funds received by him during 
the month exclusive of the quarterly Auditor's warrant. 



COURSE OF STUDY 

FOR THE 
COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA 

(Based on an elementary course of seven grades or years.) 

FIRST YEAR. 

No. of recitation 
periods per week 
English — Grammar reviewed, Rhetoric and Composition, 

and Classics 5 

Mathematics — Arithmetic reviewed, (first half-year); 

Algebra, (second half-year) 5 

History — English History 3 

Science — Physical Geography, (three periods per week for 
first half-year, and three periods per week for second 
half-year until March when Agriculture is taken up)_ 3 

Agriculture, (three periods per week during March, 

April and May) 

Manual Training and Drawing — Geometrical Drawing 2 

ELECTIVE, (One of the following) 5 

Latin — Beginner's 5 

German — Grammar and Composition, easy reading 5 

Commercial Geography — 5 

School Garden Work — 



Required 23 periods. 



SECOND YEAR. 

English — Rhetoric and Composition, and Classics 5 

Mathematics — Algebra to Quadratics, (first half-year) ; 

Plane Geometry, (second half-year) 5 

History — Ancient History to 800 A D _ 3 

Science — Biology, 3 periods 1 per week during entire year__ 

Agriculture, 1 period per week during entire year 4 

Manual Training and Drawing — Mechanical Drawing or 

Linear Drawing ' 2 

ELECTIVE, (One of the following) p 

Latin — Caesar, 4 books; 

or Viri Romae and 3 books of Caesar 

Grammar and Prose Composition 5 

German — Grammar and Composition, reading of intermedi- 
ate texts 5 

Commercial Arithmetic — 5 

School Garden Work 



Requlrea ti periods, 



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THIRD YEAR. 

No. of Recitation 
periods per week. 
English — History of English Literature, Composition and 

Classics 5 

Mathematics — Plane Geometry, (first half-year); advanced 

Algebra, (second half-year) 5 

History — Mediaeval and Modern History 3 

ELECTIVE, (Two of the following) 10 

Latin — Cicero, 6 orations; or Cicero's Letters and 4 ora- 
tions; Grammar or Prose Composition 5 

French — Grammar and Composition reading of easy texts 5 

German — Same as in first year 5 

Bookkeeping 5 

Physics and Agriculture — Physics, 4 periods per week and 

Agriculture 2 periods per week during entire year 5 

School Garden Work 



Required 23 periods. 
FOURTH YEAR. 

English — American Literature, Composition and Classics 

and Advanced Grammar 5 

Mathematics — Advanced Algebra, (first half-year); Solid 

Geometry or Arithmetic, (second half-year) 5 

History — U. S. History and Civics, Alabama History 4 

ELECTIVE — (Two of the following) 10 

Science — Chemistry and Agriculture, (Chemistry 5 periods 
per week during the first half-year and 3 periods per 
week during the second half-year; Agriculture 2 
periods per week during the second half-year 5 

Latin — Vergil, 6 books; or 1500 lines of Ovid's Metamor- 
phoses and 4 books of Vergil 5 

French — Grammar and Composition, reading of interme- 
diate texts 5 

German — Same as in second year 5 

Bookkeeping and Commercial Law — 5 

School Garden Work — 



Required 24 periods. 

NOTE — 

1. If a foreign language (Latin, Fench or German) is elected, 
it must be pursued consecutively at least two years. Standard Col- 
leges will give no credit for one-year courses in these languages. 
It is advisable that Latin, when once begun, be pursued during the 
entire four years. 

Text book work in Biology, Physics and Chemistry must be sup- 
plemented by laboratory experiments performed by toe pupils. Each 



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pupil will be required to keep a record of his laboratory work in a 
note book and submit it to the High School Inspectors for examina- 
tion whenever called upon. 

School Garden Work is a part of the course in Agriculture. 
The length of the recitation period must be not less than forty 
minutes and not over forty-five minutes. 

A certificate indicating the units or subjects completed will 
be granted at the close of the first, second and third years. A 
diploma will be given upon the completion of the fourth year. 

The number of elective courses offered in each year will be de- 
termind by the teaching force. Schools having only three teachers 
cannot offer as many elective studies as schools in which four or 
more teachers are employed. 

A High School unit is defined as a subject which has been 
pursued successfully during a school year of thrty-six weeks, five 
recitation periods per week, the periods being not less than forty 
minutes in length. For instance, Biology in the second year is 
counted as thee-fifths of a unit. Two periods of laboratory work 
are equivalent to one recitation period in counting units. 



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LIST OF TEXT BOOKS 

FOR 
COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS. 



FIRST YEAR. 

English — Reed and Kellogg's Higher Lessons in Eng- 
lish Chas. E. Merrill Co. 

Brooks and Hubbard's Rhetoric and Composi- 
tion American Book Co. 

Gateway Series of English Classics American Book Co. 

Other Classics (See pages 31-3 3 of Manual) 

Southern School Book Depository, Atlanta, Ga. 

Arithmetic — Colaw and Elwood's Advanced- _B. F. Johnson Pub. Co. 

Physical Geography — Maury-Symonds American Book Co. 

Algebra — Collin's Practical Elementary Algebra American Book Co. 

Latin — Pearson's Essentials American Book Co. 

History — Walker's Essential's in English History-American Book Co. 
Geometrical Drawing — Kitchner's Geometrical Note Book 

The MacMillan Co. 

German — Joyne's Wesselhoeft's German Grammar- _D. C. Heath & Co 

Wesselhoeft's German Composition _D. C. Heath & Co. 

Huss' German Reader D. C. Heath & Co. 

Agriculture — Duggar's Agriculture The MacMillan Co. 



SECOND YEAR. 

English — Brooks and Hubbard's Rhetoric and Composi- 
tion .-American Book Co. 

Gateway Series of English Classics American Book Co. 

Other Classics (See pages 31-33 of Manual) 

Southern School Book Depository, Atlanta, Ga. 

Algebra, — Collin's Practical Elementary Algebra- -American Book Co. 

Geometry — Wentworth'si Plane and Solid Ginn & Co. 

History — Wolfson's Essentials in Ancient History-American Book Co. 

Biology — Bailey and Coleman's Biology The MacMillan Co. 

Drawing — Davidson's Linear Drawing Hinds, Noble & Eldredge. 

Botany — Bergen's Botany Ginn & Co. 

Latin — Harkness and Forbes' Caesar American Book Co. 

Pearson's Latin Composition (Caesar) American Book Co. 

Harkness' Complete Latin Grammar American Book Co. 

Arrowsmith & Knapp's Selections from Viri- 

Romae American Book Co. 

German — Joyne's Wesselhoeft's German Grammar 

D. C. Heath & Co. 

Wesselhoeft's German Composition D. C. Heath & Co. 



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Storm's Immensee, Heyse's L'Arrabbiata 

D. C. Heath & Co. 

Der Schwiegersohn, Nicotiana D. C. Heath & Co. 

Commercial Arithmetic — Moore's New Commercial 

American Book Co. 

Agriculture— Duggar's Field Crops _ The MacMilJan Co. 



THIRD YEAR. 

English — Halleck's History of English Literature_American Book Co. 
Wooley's Handbook of English Composition-- 

D. C. Heath & Co. 

Gateway Series of English Classics American Book Co. 

Other Classics (See pages 31-33 of Manual 

Southern School Book Depository, Atlanta, Ca 

Geometry — Wentworth's Geometry Ginn & Co 

Algebra — The Essentials of Algebra (Aley & Rothrock) 

Silver, Burdett & Co. 

Physics — Higgin's Physics Ginn & Co 

Latin — Harper & Gallup's Cicero's Orations and Selec- 
tions from the Letters American Book Co. 

Pearson's Latin Prose Composition (Cicero) __ 

American B")ok Co. 

French — Francois' Beginners' French American Book Co. 

Uno Semane a Paris American Book Co. 

Trois Contes Choisis .--American Book Co. 

History — Harding's Mediaeval and Modern History 

American Book Co. 

Commercial Geography — Redway's Commercial Geogra- 
phy , Chas. Scribner's Sons. 

Book-keeping — Office Methods and Practical Book-keep- 
ing, complete system Powers &. Lyons. 

Agriculture — Goff's Symposium of Horticulture 

University Co-operative Co., Madison, Wis. 



FOURTH YEAR. 

English — Simond's History of American Literature.--- 

Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 

Whitney's Essentials of English Grammar Ginn & Co. 

Gateway Series of Classics American Book Co 

Other Classics (See pagesi 31-33 of Manual) 

Southern School Book Depository, Atlanta. Ga. 

Algebra — The Essentials of Algebra (Aley & Rothrock) 

Silver, Burdett & Co. 

Geometry — Wentworth's Geometry Girm & Co. 

Arithmetic — Sensenig and Anderson's Complete Arithme- 
tic Silver, Burdett & Co. 

History — Hart's Essential's in American History 

. —_-- American Book Co. 



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Civics- — James and Sanborn's Government in State and 

Nation Chas. Scribner's Sons. 

Latin — Harper and Miller's Vergil American Book Co. 

Gleason's, A Term of Ovid American Book Co. 

Commercial Law — White's Business Law Silver, Burdett & Co. 

French — Douay's French Reader Silver, Burdett & Co. 

Fasnacht's French Grammar The MacMillan Co. 

L'Abbe Constantin, LaMare au Diable 

D. C. Heath & Co. 

Book-keeping — Office Methods and Practical Book-keep- 
ing, Complete System Powers & Lyons 

Chemistry — Smith's Essentials of Chemistry Benj. Sanborn & Co. 

Agriculture— Snyder's Chemistry of Soils and Fertili- 
zers The MacMillan Co. 



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